The LDP has announced it is considering a Gundam development program, with the presumed intent of defending Japan with an army of giant robots.

On a political talk-show broadcast on NicoNico Douga, LDP parliamentarians including the LDP’s vice president Tadamori Oshima and former party general secretary Bunmei Ibuki revealed the LDP was “seriously considering” a “Gundam development project.”

This policy would apparently incorporate both industrial promotion of the development of bipedal robots, and their military employment.

This is not the first time the fascination of Japanese with militarily ludicrous giant robots has reached into the official sphere – previously civil servants famously developed cost estimates for the construction of a Gundam unit.

Online the plan has attracted the expected ridicule (although the prospect of seeing a billion dollar titan toppled by a hundred dollar shell to the knee admittedly has a certain appeal), as well as some suspicion that it is part of a crude attempt by the censorship loving LDP to curry favour with the creepy right-wing otaku demographic – and, this being Japan, some actual support:

“This is how they are going to spend our newly raised consumption tax?”

“These are Japan’s politicians.”

“Why Gundam all of a sudden now? You start with Zaku, Zaku!”

“Patlabor, you mean.”

“Nice to see they have some dreams, at least.”

“You lot are always trolled by this stuff, like that nonsense about Aso being a Rozen Maiden fan.”

“Why not start by making some robots which can clean up after a nuclear accident, morons.”

“Forget about useless bipedal bots, make something more useful.”

“Humanoid development allows artificial limbs and other good stuff. It’s good for Japan to follow its own direction, compared to the US and China and company, who are all on the same track.”

“People ridiculing this are the same people who would have been ridiculing the car a century ago!”

“Encouraging robotic development is great, but there really is not likely to be any merit in pushing bipedal ones.”

“Gundams would be useless in a real war. If their intent is anything more than to curry favour with otaku they should start looking at what would be.”

“Well, Gundam is just a symbol. Any idiot can see they are useless. They must be talking about promoting the robotics industry.”

as the current tech stands, it would more likely be along the lines of armored troopers voltoms but advancements to come we should be able to produce viable units probably resembling wanzers and pregeneration armored cores (ACV) only thing of that wouldn’t be present are the oversized weaponary

Macross jets or wanzer or even Armored Core seems possible. Keep it simple but effective.
To many parts and it’ll be more likely to break, and whoever your enemy is they’ll be likely to exploit it.
It doesn’t need to be HUGE, that’s not really tactical, it just needs to be able to traverse streets pretty well and/or bulldoze anything thing in its way, cars, maybe buildings. I think it would best fill the role of “support vehicle” or “assualt vehicle”.
You wouldn’t need a AI except for maybe target acquiring stuff, like AC for example, and if that didn’t work a few mounted cameras like in gundam.

As much of a Gundam otaku I am, I really do think these guys are trying to get votes. Second, in an age where everyone is using unmanned air drones, how well do you think a Mobile Suit will fare against it? Also, MS’s legs are easy targets for tanks,something people who played Zeonic Front will know too well about that.
A real Gundam would be epic, but I think that Zakus should be first, and then after enough experience with building MS’s comes about, and greater advances in technology come about,then go for the Gundam.

building a mobile suit is not that stupid (if you know the in-universe history of Gundam). building one on earth first is weird.

in the gundam universe, mobile suits were developed in a bipedal shape because their development originated in zero-gravity and was based originally on mechanized space suits. mobile suit movement is similar to how modern day astronauts move around in EVA (extra-vehicular activity) gear.

building one on the ground is a dumb move because the tech isn’t even worked out yet.

being a hardcored sci-fi fan, I must see that GUNDAM will be the most impractically project human has ever made. Starcraft’marine suit, or power armor from Apple Seed, cyber brain and tachikoma from GitS sound way better ideals than that stupid GUNDAM. Even a sex droid like one in Quantic Dream is more welcomed.

Ok, now politicians are really making an statement without knowing anything, but, well, when we see a gundam that can walk fast, jump, have alaser sword. and anything else………we can say, welcome to the future.

Even though I’m a Gundam fan from an engineering stand point a large insect robot would be much more practical.
More stable less need for advanced AI to keep it upright it would have a lower profile so less likely to get hit by an anti tank missile.

It would be possible to make a knee joint tougher then a tank tread maybe enough it could take a direct hit with an RPG 7 or even a Hell Fire but when someone makes a tougher can someone else invents a better can opener.

OK, despite this idea of constructing a bipedal robot, namely a Gundam, is ridiculous since today’s current technology may not match up the stardards to build such a thing, lets if something like this can actually happen.

It is the year after ww2-2012 when the clash of mobile suits began and every nation with power to build these suits wanted to rule the earth sphere. hahaha sounds wicked right I say bring it on modern warfare is cool and all but now to amp it a bit… and start thinking future warfare.

I feel it’s worth pointing out that when airplanes were first introduced to war let alone made people thought it was nuts and would never work/be practical. Same is true for tanks. Almost all mass weapon changes have been thought of as mad at the start.

Hell i for one see mechs being made SOMEDAY but i also see the first ones making the Zaku 1 look like the fucking Gp-02 if not Victory 2. But give it time and hello hell.

Well i guess there is also always the classic tech jump that seems to happen IRL where we EXPECT something to not work or be slow and clunky yet when we first make it it winds up being alot more efficient that thought in the past just cause our tech was so much more advanced when we actually got around to it.

Not in militaries. In a war any idea is considered worth giving it a try as long as there should be any gain from it.

Air reconnaissance and bombing raids were out in battlefields long before first airplane was created. They were using baloons for that. Airplanes were just improvement.

This is basically that kind of chance mechas have to appear in battlefield. If will show to be more practical (not better – more practical) than system currently in use, then may reach indeed production. At least as long as current platform can’t be upgraded in that area for lower price.

RPG in the legs and it’s dead. Not even a 120mm HEAT tank shell, just a small RPG round.This is too stupid, they are better off developing their own fighters instead of sucking America’s dick for the failure that’s called the f-35.

No wai, the F35 hull is ugly as fuck. The VF-1 design from DYRL is actually quite modern – complete with 360° canopy-projected HUD, touchscreen glass cockpit etc. If the shape still seems too retro then there’s still the VF-0 and the myriads of later designs, including the stealthily-shaped VF-17, VF-22 and VF-171 to chose from.

To think of building a Gundam… First you might wanna consider first Metal Gear.

Since Metal Gear is simple due to the fact it’s mobility is almost as equal to the Gundam/Zaku. It be a torrent of thinking on how can you move the Mobile Suit, with arms, legs and the whole enchilada.

Then there’s the power source. We still don’t have the technology to power a Mobile Suit like the Gundam or Zaku.

I pretty much propose a Metal Gear-like variable like mecha to be a stepping stone in military things.

Yeah, the Break Blade mecha are a good compromise, since they ARE bulky because of the tech, and thus more likely in our current tech level. Full Metal Panic comes close too, although it is much more sophisticated.

Building Giant Robots would be a bit pointless, however armoured bipedal frames of say 8 to 15 foot could make a common infantry man as powerful as a mainline battle tank while being maneuverable in difficult terrain (jungle, forest, mountains).

We talked about this on some Forum board not long ago. Its possible using carbon fiber and newer versions of such materials in a frame. Right now the weapons don’t exist that make it fesable to use against any thing other than a school of invading dolphins or a invading flock of geese. You see, making yourself be an actual giant target any one can see and exposing your weapons 50 to 100 feet off the ground is totally stupid. Thats why tanks are low and flat topped. Also, the weapons would have to be made out of something harder than carbon fiber but lighter than carbon fiber or the MECH would have to have at least 8 legs stuck out in a pod like fashion to just keep balance thats 3 to the left and right and 1 in front and 1 in back to keep it from tipping over when moving over any area not flat and level. KEEP ON DREAMING, not going to happen in this pre-stone age religion culture world

also considering the size of this thing, once you get inside of it, it will probably shatter all of your bones. one step it takes is like a elevator dropping a couple of floors down so it would either need to be remotely controlled or find a good way to cushion these interior impacts on the human operators. Plus they would need a very new kind of structual material that will support its own weight.

This kind of idiocy makes American politics look sane in comparison. Are japs so fucking stupid that this kind of statement can come out of a politician from a major party and not have any repercussions? Possibly a multi hundred billion dollar waste of money based off of what’s basically a trumped up version of children’s fuckin naive comic book/anime hero crap that is gundam.

I hope they were not actually serious about making a bipedal robot that would become the most expensive practice target in world history. But this really does explain why their budget is nearing 220% of GDP and rising even faster.

i thought ishihara was involve too. its going to be funny when they start to build the gundam someone in the neighborhood call the cop saying its too loud just like the article about the old man owner of the land was arrested for stealing 7 cherries.

I dunno Japanese come up with some smart shit making gundams would be some elite shit maybe America already started on that project and we don’t know about it hahaha. p.s where the hell are you going to find gundanium alloy that shit don’t exist lol.

what a ludicrous plan, bipedal robots, don’t make me laugh, that’s a target waiting to get destroyed in war time (not agile enough), they should consider another option, like the tanks from Ghost in the Shell (Fuchikoma type), that’s a more viable option if you ask me…

The was a Battletech novel where Clan Jade Falcon was experimenting with veritechs. Near the end of the novel, Khan Marthe Pride decided the things were too weak overall to be worth developing further and cancelled the project.

Can you believe a country of 1.3 billion something people got their asses handed to them with 20,000 dead in a single MONTH during sino-vietnam? Imagine what would have happened if they stayed there for 10 years…

Conventional (non-nuke, non-biological, non-poisonous-chemical) weapons all are subject to the rock-paper-scissors problem: there’s always something which can ‘beat’ them.

This holds true for giant BattleMechs/Gundams/etc.

Low-tech ‘Mech killer: find a spot in a BattleMech’s likely line of travel, dig some 10-foot-deep holes, put flimsy (thin plywood) covers over them, disguise them, and wait for the ‘Mech to come along, drop a leg into the hole, and break it’s fuckin’ knee.

I don’t care how well you pad the cockpit, a human pilot falling 30 meters is gonna die of a broken neck, or at least be disabled by concussion.

I suspect the Japanese citizenry would be highly disturbed at the thought of nuclear reactors in ‘Mech shells wandering the countryside, with big signs saying, “Enemy Soldiers! Shoot At Me!” plastered over them.

You’re right in a lot of ways, but I think the biggest disadvantage here is simply the size of the machines involved. The problem with building a big robotic warmachine is simply that it’s “big”. Too big.

Sure, the bigger it is, the more potential to cause destruction it would have. But, realistically, that just means that the bigger it is, it’ll be that much easier of a target for rocket launchers and the like.

Even without the use of holes and the like, like you suggested, one could simply shoot out its knee from a distance and just watch it topple over. Different means, same end result: The huge metal suit will fall, and the pilot will either die or be seriously injured. Even if we somehow did come up with a way to protect the pilot — even if we invented some anime-esque thing like an anti-gravity field or some grand thing like that to suspend the pilot in and protect them from things like falls and such — that still doesn’t get rid of the fact that he’d pretty much be stuck in a huge, metal husk that’s lying flat on the ground. And that’s if his mech suit didn’t already explode upon impact with the ground. Regardless of the powersource (getting to that in a bit), I doubt it’d be all too safe to have huge ammunitions hitting the ground. Hard.

Not to mention the fact that no matter what the knee — or whatever other softspot one chooses to aim for — is constructed out of, it will only take one good explosion to destroy it, or at least render it immobile.

The only reason Gundams were even theoritically possible is because of the metal they “found” in their universe. (I think it was called “Gundanium”, wasn’t it?) It was damn near indestructible and allowed those giant robots to move around any way they wanted. Otherwise, they never would’ve moved at all. The weight of their own leg would’ve broken the knee when they even tried to take a step if they were constructed from any metal we used today. They were simply too big.

Furthermore, the kind of power needed to operate such a massive behemoth of a warmachine would pretty much have to be nuclear, like you said. As of yet, no battery today exists that could hold that much energy needed. Having giant wires plugged into the machine and following around behind it all the time (like in Eva) is simply too impractical. But a nuclear reactor literally walking around all the time would be a danger too. If it even so much as tripped on a hill, you could say byebye to an entire major city.

But, mini-rant aside, even if Japan were to seriously consider a project like this, bipedal robots wouldn’t be the way to go about it. They’d be too easily taken out of commission. And, the bigger they are, the easier it is to repeatedly blast the knee out from under them.

Whatever legged vehicle gets developed in the future, I think you have to keep it low to the ground. Cover is essential. The advantage of legs over wheels is on rough terrain, including urban terrain full of obstacles, stairs, etc. Something the size of a dog wouldn’t need to be heavily armoured. It could be autonomous or remote controlled. Armed with anti-personnel ordinance and light armour, it would be fast and deadly. I can see it working up to the size of a small car (Smart car size,) but not much bigger than that. Once it gets any bigger, the extra fragility and complexity will overwhelm it. It’s simple physics. Mass increase is cubed, while material strength increase is squared. It’ll quickly be unable to support its own weight.

legs are never advantageous over wheels. Specialized gear-shaped wheels with excellent suspensions and shocks will handle rough terrain better than legs. This is the reason why tanks are never on legs except in sci-fi (ie- gundam/metal gear/mech warrior/etc…)

U.S Military already did simulation and found that Giant bipedel machines are more likely be destroyed by a small Infantry division.With some improvements by the Japanese I am sure they might just prove the U.S Military wrong.

That’s why they fight in outer space,isn’t it?xD
Also,tanks can be easily destroyed by human infantry,because of it’s movement/fireing restrictions. But unless it can fly like a real Gundam,it’s useless because it would be tank/artillery/helicopter-food then.

But imagine the real thread that such a machine could bring with it. If I remember correctly, a Gundam is fuelled by an atomic reactor; wouldn’t that make it a walking atomic bomb? If you dare to destroy it,everything in a radius of like 1-3 kilometres might just go poof,so what if it’s taken out by some infantry division?That would be a Kamikaze-command to send someone/something against this thing. Just equip it with some fanatic and he will surely not hestitate to blow himself up with the machine if he’s taken out by the enemy.

The Gundam is the perfect military-weapon, a weapon that cannot be attacked because you have to fear the consequences (like a terrorist equipped with an explosive belt) of an atomic bomb explosion. Whoever has this has got the power to dominate the world, and I hope Japan is the first and only nation that gets these Robots into its hands.

And legs do have advantage over rough terrain, while in urban terrain they’d be less useful as metal legs would have almost no grip on concrete/asphalt… Also, depending on the actual mobility of the body, they would have a chance of actually avoiding missiles/projectiles. Though I doubt we have material light and strong enough to take the strain or an AI to make those maneuvers…

In every technological innovation you start out big and get smaller with more advanced technology(like with mobile phones,television, computer-processors,portable music players,etc.) because it’s easier to start with big parts (like babies start with toy blocks and advance to lego and from there to mechanics,electronics,etc.

It’s easier to understand how it works/make it work and then refine your production skill/the production matter to reduce costs/material usage/production time/etc., so in the case of persocoms, it will be most likely that evolved technology from military will become common technology later on (like the case of GPS) and naturally lead to the invention of humanoid robots(because we need them for geriatric care sooner or later).

Still,a bipedal robot is kinda useless because unless it’s bipedal movement is 100% identical to the humans,even a tracked vehicle like a tank is more flexible in movement than those bipedal robots nowadays(they can’t even climb over a tree trunk because they will lose their balance and tilt over xD) and for military usage,a tetrapedal,hexapedal or even octa-/decapedal robot would be far more promising since the weight stabilising won’t be a problem anymore[ right now that’s the biggest problem].

I guess that since the order is actually knowledge as common as to make it into anime such as Code Geass, where the abundance of dedicated military technology bitterly compares to using a general-purpose cyborg to harvest oranges, the first speaker might have been expressing a wish.

Shriow does go the extra mile in developing probable uses for his ‘bots. While
marginal in combat (it’s a one man APC) the Tachikomas are useful in safety/ rescue operations, and are colored to look fairly normal in an urban area.

I always thought 6 or 8 leg “spider”-mechs would be best. While the legs would be the most vulnerable points, as long as at least two legs on one side and one on the other were still mostly intact, it could still stand and fight. Also, as long as at least 2 legs were working on each side, pit traps wouldn’t be terribly effective.

Make the legs potentially detachable and add pop-out wheels or treads on the bottom and it could still limp home (or get wherever else it needs to be) even if severely damaged. Though this might turn out to be rather impractical.

Military or rescue vehicles with four or more legs could definitely be useful. I suspect they would use the wheels or treads as their primary mode of transport though, and only walk when faced with difficult terrain. Walking would undoubtedly be much slower and less fuel efficient, and would place significantly more strain on components, so it’s not something you’d want to use most of the time.

As for bipedal tanks, they seem quite impractical. Even if you could make a tank walk reliably upright on two legs, all it takes is one limb to break down and your vehicle is out of commission. And there would be absolutely no logic behind not adding at least a second set of legs. They would make the vehicle far more stable and reliable.

How much is TEPCO paying you to post that shit? While not as bad as chernobyl, fukushima was pretty bad that another disaster like that would have chernobyl-level cancer rate increase in japanese population.

Hopefully this article can be updated a bit, because of the following:

“This is not the first time the fascination of Japanese with militarily ludicrous giant robots has reached into the official sphere – previously civil servants famously developed cost estimates for the construction of a Gundam unit – but it probably represents the”

They should go for developing a Bonaparte mini-tank: Something speedy, can jump over obstacles as easily as rolling over them, maneuver on surface streets & off-road, handle helicopters (the bane of the classic tank), and be able to take explosive ordinances to its’ mechanical crotch as well as Lady Gaga takes to fucked-up clothing & hair-styles.

At least ‘moon colony’ was even remotely contemplate-able and is an integral eventuality to human progress. Bipedal robots from fucking kid comics that cost billions of dollars? Are these people even politicians?

‘Drone’ is a misnomer. It implies advanced autonomous machine that can go toe to toe with human opponents to a point where humans are extremely disadvantaged by being…human. Media and general public is over hyping a remote controlled toy with a terminator like scenario, just as any gullible modern day public and media does.

Current UAVs, although much more advanced than before, still have their obvious limits which, when understood and properly acted against, makes them easy targets. They lack the quality which makes an autonomous machines ‘autonomous’ – a true, learn-and-adapt AI. Essentially, what we have now is a limited robotic tool that has some basic procedures down and automatized, and can react fast, but is incapable of learning anything and is most of the time controlled by human operators. In essence, a really stealthy, expensive flying tools with missiles, not real robotic AI.

What makes a Gundam, a GUNDAM, is the ability to shirk almost all conventional weaponry, except to the joints. If there is a material strong enough to withstand the strongest tank shot without a scratch, it should be possible.

If you could mount some kind of functional anti-missile system on it, as well as superior armor, it could work. I imagine there would be some real benefits in a warzone of having a 100-foot tall humanoid capable of carrying large amounts of weaponry over any terrain.

It’s still much more practical to use that resource to build a dozen normal tanks with that anti-missile system and superior armor. Smaller target, ability to hide, mobility (huge robot would be too heavy to travel by rail, bridge, road without causing damage, air is out of the question, and refueling/logistics, especially under enemy fire, would be a nightmare), and most important of all, maintainability. A giant robot would likely require extensive maintenance 90% of its operational life.

i say start off small building mechs like the ones on Blue Gender then work your way up to Patlabor sizes then gundam sizes and not waste tax trying to build a gundam that will most likely end in failure and waste tax money

yeah build gurren lagann series all of them it would be so freaking awesome its something i long to see before i leave this stinking planet if possible in my own gurren lagann in a huge ass fight with kamina and simon

its much cheaper and more effective to build a tank. because thanks dont have high tech bipedal legs, they’re going to be so much cheaper and easier to maintain because there wont be any shocks from jumping around like a robot. Also, still just 1 shell = exploded bot. 🙁

Unless we can find steel that is 100x stronger than the current best, and an energy source as powerful as the atom, but much more available and cleaner, it will still be just a fantasy.

8 legged tanks are the only form of Mechanical robot esque vehicle that would work. A Gundam style mech would not be a realistic and viable weapon when any of our modern weapons and vehicles could take it out or travel over more terrain (Though an 8 legged tank would beat anything we have) for a mere fraction of the cost. Lololol

I think Armored Core NEXT is the most realistic mech I considered.. It’s only 10m tall, modular design, has many ‘apogee kick rocket’ and it can fly too ! It’s production cost maybe half of Gundam-type mech.

Enginners and mechanics maybe (but if you give them the right stimulus, the otakus can easily acquire that knowledge, since they have insane willpower), but programmers? C’mon, they stay their whole day shut in their home in front of a computer. Even if they didn’t want, they’d have some base of programming…

Indeed. And them make Japan rich by exporting sex robots to all kinds of sickfucks. Want a girl with tits bigger than you? Want a tentacle girl? Want a futanari loli furry? We can make one if you pay the price!

Another useless comment from the religious nuts, and once again I mention, why the hell you come to this site if you already know the theme to something with sex is always remembered?
I think giant robots at least in urbans areas would be useless.
And some with power of flight would be as heavy as a tank and engines with the capacity and consumption would be immense.

More useful to invest in robots and androids! Japan fictional in the future there is a coexistence as in ghost in the shell.
Once the extended life expectancy is no urgent need to increase the population.
Sex would be more entertaining, then why not with sexbots?

Years back there was this company Paradox Press that published “Big Book of”—

Well, in the “Big Book of Bad” there was a chapter called “Militarism in Japan”…noting it destroyed any chance of making real peace with the outside world and led ultimately to Japan getting NUKED. Oh, and the “Rape of Nanking” for fun along the way…

Well this is right there with twice the STUPID…

>>>>(although the prospect of seeing a billion dollar titan toppled by a hundred dollar shell to the knee admittedly has a certain appeal)

At least that was pointed out.

There’s a reason we don’t have robot titans walking around the battlefield. (2) And the technology could have been made in the 70s with IC chips. As long as a human controls them the only thing the computers need to do is maintain the system.

The reason is this:

“Newton’s laws of motion” of that F*M=A…

Force = Mass times Acceleration

Now real “Gundams” have this piece of “Bolognium” (1) called Gundamanium or some such metal… Perhaps degenerate matter, such as somehow stripped from a Neutron star…? In short it’s a much denser metal than anything on the periodic table so it has a lot more tolerance for abuse. Also it’s why it takes a nuclear generator in those things to move around when if they were mere metal diesel or gasoline could have them running for a day or so.

I’m sure the Japanese engineers could rig something human controlled up right out of whatever “Giant Robot” anime out there… BUT- to standard anti vehicle/armor weaponry they’d be giant, delicate tin cans…

1 – Larry Niven coined that term. For “High tech plot device” pointing out how little sci-fi authors really needed to know about science fiction and how little it had to do with any “Real” science/plausible technology.

2 – A reason also even an obscenely superior force such as America in Iraq/Afghanistan tends to have it’s heavy equipment go as high and fast and overwhelming as possible. Because a single RPG shot costing $5 can take ’em down, even supposedly “Armored” helicopters or flying bricks like the Osprey.

1st the Osprey isn’t heavily armored by any means. Hell, Hardly lightly armored. Its not built for that. Thats why it has 1 rear mounted M240b and has only seen one or two kills in one engagement.

Having been deployed with the Army multiple times as a Tanker and later as PsyOp I can say with VERY high certainty that the armor on our MRAP’s, Strykers, Uparmored Humvees, and Abrams are VERY able to take multiple RPG hits. When I was Deployed to Iraq the first time around we lost a tank in a very bad ditch during a firefight. Later when we tried to recover the vehicle, we could not so we had to destroy it. We chose to fire at it with the main cannon from another M1. No penetration. Hit it with a AT4. No penetration. We had to call in EOD to destroy it with explosives. In Afghanistan we had an MRAP take 3 RPG hits and small arms fire with minimal damage and was able to drive safely back to the FOB.

While our old Humvees where not armored, our new Humvees, MRAP’s and Stryker’s are HIGHLY resistant vehicles. and the M1 Abrams has the best shit ever made. After seeing that its own main cannon can’t penetrate its hull I have total confidence in it.

You were probably doing it wrong. Although in places the M1 armour is strong enough, quite a few have been knocked out of action from friendly fire by other M1 tanks, as well as some extensive damage by other tanks and missiles. The only reason the official ‘destroyed by enemy fire’ count is zero is that we’ve recovered them and (because they’re so expensive) refurbished them.
As for the Humvee, it’s armour is a joke; I’ve seen one being torn apart by a low power explosive. It’s a jeep trying to be a tank, and it fails at both roles; I can’t even imagine what the higher ups were thinking when they commissioned that coffin-on-wheels.

Patlabour sounds about right, those humanoid construction platforms. Although we’d see the Aliens loader first.

Yeah, robotics industry. We’ll get Miku first and that will start a war with the idol bands heralding the end of their age. And from the blasted wasteland we will hold a concert for our robotic idols atop a yellow bulldozer.

Ah,you must be one of this religious fanatics who only watches English dubs of anime…
Behold and cry for this is the one and only truth!
This Gundam is called GF13-017NJII GOD GUNDAM. He is the God of all Gundams,together with his older Brother, the GF13-017NJ SHINING GUNDAM one of the 2 coolest Gundams that were ever drawn (sorry to say it but most of the Gundam-designs just suck,especially those from Gundam wing and Gundam seed).

There are some power assist technologies being developed, mostly for the handicapped, but there are some that are being developed with an eye towards construction. The problem with the latter variety is that they need to be plugged in to generate enough power to move any heavy objects (like armor or large weapons). The key would be to either mount a generator on the thing (doable, but problematic) or hope for far higher capacity batteries, more efficient servos, etc.

i sorry to tell you this japan but the USA has a Gundam type that all already being test on and has been for a long time were you ask Area 51 but just not there few others places around the world why when they will show everyone by taking over the world you see you’ll all see

We can dream but this project will fail and not to mention how much money they’ll have to invest into this project…probably trillions or more…still Gundam/Mobile Suits are a bit too much, they should start with Fakes(Gasaraki) and proceed from there.

silly japs. Gundam is a hero-designated class that belongs to nations that deserve them (i.e. not japan). japan’s role is to build many zakus and be destroyed in droves so that heroes (again, not japan) can show off their sense of superiority to an inferior opponent (aka japs).

this is really funny because they always try to cast japanese or japanese-like characters as main heroes in gundam but they are always hilariously childish in many sense.

Let me put it this way…look at dragonball where the main character (japanese-esque) goes through training, fighting,etc……than achieves his superior/pure form that consists of green eyes/flaming blond hair, overall brighter coloring and impression. (aka white and definitely not japanese)